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Building Skills NY Launches Workforce Training Program

Posted on April 30, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Building Skills NY announced the launch of its workforce training program, which offers low-income and unemployed New Yorkers construction training and job placement in the affordable housing industry. Continue reading →

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NYCHA Launches New Self-Service Portal for Housing Applicants

Posted on April 10, 2013 by | Leave a comment

nychaAs part of the New York City Housing Authority’s goal to enhance customer service, it has launched an online service tool for Public Housing and Section 8 Voucher applicants. Continue reading →

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WHLDC Awarded $2 Million In West Harlem

Posted on March 21, 2013 by | Leave a comment

boardmeeting-1024x371West Harlem Local Development Corporation (WHLDC) awarded $2 million in grants to 83 local community-based organizations (CBOs) whose work will advance WHLDC’s mission of promoting increased economic opportunities and quality of life to sustain a vibrant West Harlem community. Continue reading →

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Pols, tenants battle to keep rents affordable

Posted on October 24, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Hundreds of upper Manhattan tenants could be in danger of losing their homes if the Texas-based venture capital firm that now controls 10 buildings moves ahead with their sale as planned. Continue reading →

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Starbucks Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of Community Store in Harlem

Posted on October 1, 2012 by | Leave a comment

We want to give props to Starbucks for the work they are doing in Harlem. Over the past year, Starbucks partnered with the Harlem Community store in Harlem resulting in $113,000 contribution to Abyssinian Development Corporation headed by CEO Sheena Wright (left and Lisa Price, founder of Carol’s Daughter in Harlem, on the right). Continue reading →

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Harlem RBI’s DREAM Charter School in East Harlem

Posted on September 29, 2012 by | 1 Comment

Perkins Eastman is designing a new four-floor, 63,000 sf home for the DREAM charter school and Harlem RBI offices in East Harlem. Continue reading →

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Can Accessory Apartments Work in Harlem?

Posted on July 30, 2012 by | Leave a comment

I heard about accessory apartments while listening to WNYC the other day. What is an accessory apartment? Accessory apartments in Harlem might be the answer to affordable housing, senior assistance, and/or a source of added income for homeowners, etc.,. Continue reading →

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Harlem’s Lettire Construction Pays Back Wages

Posted on July 27, 2012 by | Leave a comment

But Mr. Lettire did not always make sure that those workers were paid proper wages and benefits on at least two projects, even as he took federal housing money, according to the United States Department of Labor. Continue reading →

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Centerline Capital Group Refinances Four Multifamily Properties in Harlem

Posted on April 3, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Centerline Capital Group (“Centerline”), a provider of real estate financial and asset management services for affordable and conventional multifamily housing, and a subsidiary of Centerline Holding Company (OTC: CLNH.OB – News), announced today it has provided a $45.2 MM Fannie Mae affordable MBS facility to refinance four multifamily properties in Harlem New York.

The four properties, which comprise a total of 388 apartment units, are located throughout the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.  Continue reading →

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Historic Jazz Site in Harlem, Houses Formerly Homeless

Posted on March 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

At a time when social services are facing sometimes difficult cuts, one organization is celebrating the funding it received from the city to rehabilitate a housing project in Harlem that provides homes and services to the chronically homeless.

Housing and Services Inc., or HSI, — an organization that develops and manages affordable housing for New Yorkers with special needs — announced this week that it has completed construction on its rehabilitation project for supportive housing at the Cecil Hotel in Harlem and the Narragansett Hotel on the Upper West Side. Continue reading →

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